Well, after Triad took all of IO's attention off you all so you could not find yourselves swallowed up and eaten like the muppets you are, after Triad supported Hydra, didn't break their pact in place since server start, and pretty much made the game a lot easier for you by taking attention away from your little borderlands band of simmers,after you realized that by breaking a pact with the only ally who stood by your side the entire game so you could side with the alliance who has tried to take your cities again, and again, and again just because you couldn't beat Triad in a stand up game played the way it was meant to, you had to find a new way to cheat to try and take a hit at them..
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Interesting lurking and reading this....
Did Hydra benefit from being pacted with Triad? Absolutely no doubt whatsoever you are entirely correct I doubt they would have coped with war vs Triad and IO.
However.... the pact was also mutually beneficial to Triad, a fact conveniently ignored. Triad have played it very, very smart... and full credit to them. They had all the top alliances - themselves, Hydra and DF - fighting IO. Both Hydra and DF were so keen on the a WW invite / cooperation with Triad they didn't consider the bigger picture.... the only realistic way to stop you guys was the entire server against you.
DF... you successfully recruited some of their best players, and they abandoned the rest cos they wanted the crown. Hydra? Well don't know the story there, am guessing you tried to recruit a few but they didn't agree with the policy of "recruit the best, eat the rest??" We know you have tried to poach a few from NWA, that you cant deny.
You should actually be thanking Hydra - they refused to consider ww cooperation with any other alliance, and kept the Triad pact until it was 100% clear you had absolutely no interest in working together with them for the wonders. Only then did they (understandably) get disillusioned. In sticking by you to the last - there is every chance they allowed you to get the first 4 wonders.
Question.... Had the entire server been working against you a month ago, or the ww period started later allowing others more time to prepare, would you have got the first four wonders? Who knows. Congratulations for getting them... very well deserved... but I for one think it will be a tougher fight than perhaps some of you are expecting to get the remaining three... and your hands on the crown. And if you do achieve it... well it will be very much deserved.
But what do I know, I am just a noob.... based in an ocean that was completely written off with no chance whatsoever at having an impact on this server